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Front Row: One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form

One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form

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Netflix's version of' One Day, Oscar-nominated American Fiction, Beyond Form exhibition.

David Nicholls' book One Day reimagined by Netflix, Cord Jefferson on his directorial debut  American Fiction, and Beyond Form exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate.

Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Evening Standard’s Arts Editor Nancy Durrant and art historian and curator Catherine McCormack about a new adaptation of David Nicholls’s book, One Day, which is released on Netflix today.  It follows Emma and Dexter who meet at their graduation in Edinburgh in the late 80s, as they weave in and out of each other’s lives. They also discuss Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, a new exhibition featuring the work of women artists who pushed at the boundaries of art-making in the post-war period. 

American Fiction has been nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay – which was written by its director Cord Jefferson.  He talks to Tom about how the book it’s based on resembled his own life so much it felt like it was written just for him, and how humour plays a crucial role in illustrating how black writers are still pushed into writing “ghetto fiction”.

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